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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Benji's company?

2. When Joe slips and lets on he knows the name of Beck's favorite movie, what does Beck assume?

3. What is Beck's preferred method of communication?

4. Joe is disappointed by the many people who read what?

5. How old was Joe when he started working at the bookshop?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who interrupts Joe and Beck as they are assembling her bed? What is the outcome of this interruption?

2. What special gift does Beck give Joe? Why?

3. What enables Joe to monitor Beck's communications with others?

4. How does Joe meet Beck? What does Joe think about her?

5. What happened while Joe was being punished by Mr. Mooney?

6. Who is Candace and what does the reader know about her?

7. What information does Joe learn while at Beck's fiction reading?

8. What is the "cage," and where is it located?

9. How does Joe help Beck during a dangerous situation?

10. What happens when Joe escorts Beck home after the night at the bar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Joe finds himself involved in several conflicts over the course of the novel. Choose one instance of internal conflict and one instance of external conflict, and explain how these conflicts have an impact on the story and the characters involved.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring how Joe’s relationship with Beck changes over the course of the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Joe’s contradictory characteristics. In what ways is he protective? In what ways is he predatory?

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